Hi Andre, This might do it: A<-data.frame(c("c", "d", "e"),4.4:6.8,c(1,2,3)) colnames(A) <- c ("Family", "NormalizedCount", "Hits") B<-data.frame(c("c", "f", "a"),c(3.2,6.4, 4.4), c(1,4,3)) colnames(B) <- c ("Family", "NormalizedCount", "Hits") C<-data.frame(c("q", "o", "f"),c(7.2,9.4, 41.4), c(10,4,5)) colnames(C) <- c ("Family", "NormalizedCount", "Hits") keepcols<-c("Family","Hits") D<-merge(A[,keepcols],B[,keepcols],by="Family",all=TRUE) D<-merge(D,C[,keepcols],by="Family",all=TRUE) D[,2:4]<-sapply(D[,-1],function(x) { x[is.na(x)]<-0; x }) names(D)<-c("Family","A","B","C")
Jim On Fri, Feb 24, 2017 at 9:37 AM, André Luis Neves <andrl...@ualberta.ca> wrote: > Dear R users, > > I have the following dataframes (A, B, and C) stored in a list: > > A= data.frame(c("c", "d", "e"),4.4:6.8,c(1,2,3)) > colnames(A) <- c ("Family", "NormalizedCount", "Hits") > A > > > B= data.frame(c("c", "f", "a"),c(3.2,6.4, 4.4), c(1,4,3)) > colnames(B) <- c ("Family", "NormalizedCount", "Hits") > B > > > C= data.frame(c("q", "o", "f"),c(7.2,9.4, 41.4), c(10,4,5)) > colnames(C) <- c ("Family", "NormalizedCount", "Hits") > C > > mylist <- list(A=A,B=B,C=C) > mylist > > > My idea is to merge the three dataframes into another dataframe (let's name > it: 'D') with a structure in which the rows are the Families and columns > the "Hits" of each family detected in the dataframes A, B, and C. If a > given 'Family' does NOT have a 'Hit' in the dataframe we need to assign > number 0 to it. > > The dataframe 'D' would need to be populated as follows: > > > Family A > B C > c 1 1 0 > d 2 0 0 > e 3 0 0 > f 0 4 5 > a 0 3 0 > q 0 0 10 > o 0 0 4 > > > Thank you very much for your great help, > > > > -- > Andre > > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] > > ______________________________________________ > R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html > and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.